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"Although I love this kind of comedy, sometimes I feel trapped by always having to be the most outrageous guy in the room," Chris Farley was quoted as saying in 1996. "In particular, I'm working on trying not to be that guy in my private...

It takes a while to set up its centerpiece, a joyous transcontinental reunion of Afro-Cubans and Sierra Leone villagers. But the 77-minute running time of "They Are We," making its U.S. theatrical premiere this weekend at Facets with filmmaker...

It's in theaters, and only recently in wide release. But up against the monster hits "Jurassic World" and "Inside Out" a modestly scaled winner such as "Love & Mercy" has had a difficult time getting noticed this summer....

Al Pacino follows up his recent, nicely tuned turn in "Danny Collins" with another sensitively rooted performance, playing a lonely locksmith with a tamper-proof heart in director David Gordon Green's "Manglehorn."
In the tenderly...

For a nice guy from the Northwest Side, Joseph Sikora has done some very bad things.
He has been a sniper, drunk, gambler … the list is long and getting longer.
In the first season of the Starz original series "Power," his character, whose...

"Be gone, Starbuck," shouts Christopher Donahue's Captain Ahab in the Lookingglass Theatre's fabulous new three-act theatricalization of "Moby Dick," echoing the feelings of many an owner of a neighborhood coffeehouse.
For Starbuck,...

As if being a teenager isn't difficult enough. Try finding out your parents are divorcing and your father is transitioning into a woman.
The journey of Evanston teen Ben Lehwald and his parents Suzy Crawford and Carly, née Charlie, Lehwald is...

They're not Hollywood stars, they're not TV personalities and they don't play in a rock band, but their pay packages are in the same league. Six of the 10 highest-paid CEOs last year worked in the media industry, according to a study carried out by...

Retiring Principal Audris Griffith has called Deerfield High School a "special place," for numerous reasons, including student achievement inside and outside of the classroom.
That achievement was on display when 157 students, mostly seniors,...

An Illinois television news anchor who continued to work while he struggled with brain cancer has died.
WCIA-TV news director Andy Miller said Dave Benton died Tuesday at home in Champaign. Benton was 52.
Benton

On the PBS Kids TV show "Wild Kratts" brothers Chris and Martin Kratt's animated selves don Creature Power Suits to use animals' abilities to rescue their animal friends.
Families can see those suits, invented by Aviva Corcovado and her team,...

Season 3 of "Orange Is the New Black" will be a season of faith and motherhood.
That's about all creator Jenji Kohan would say about the upcoming season, premiering on Netflix June 12, at a For Your Consideration panel discussion Wednesday at...

Anne Meara, the loopy, lovable comedian who launched a standup career with husband Jerry Stiller in the 1950s and found success as an actress in films, on TV and the stage, has died.
Jerry Stiller and son Ben Stiller say Meara died Saturday. No other...

Cut and run is an instinctive network and advertiser response when a reality TV show unexpectedly implodes. But it's the wrong answer, not only to a PR problem but to a fundamental question of why reality shows exist in the first place.
Nevertheless, the...

Think you can sing well enough to win a competition?Then the Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce invites you to try out for the upcoming Village Voice contest, based off of the popular reality television show "The Voice."Auditions will be...

Here is the story of how a 1916 silent film made in Chicago starring William Gillette, the most renowned Sherlock Holmes interpreter of his day, came to be lost for nearly a century. And then, miraculously, found.
But we'll get to that.
Meantime: If...

Comic celebrities turned out for David Letterman's late-night farewell — and so did his biggest audience in more than 21 years.
The Nielsen company said Thursday that 13.76 million viewers saw Letterman end his 33-year career as a late-night TV host with...

“I'll be honest with you,” David Letterman said at the outset of his very last TV show after more than three decades. “It's beginning to look like I'm not going to get 'The Tonight Show.'“
What he did get, on show No. 6028 Wednesday of the nation's...

Because of his role as a single dad on the long-running ABC sitcom "Full House" and his concurrent hosting of "America's Funniest Home Videos," Bob Saget seemed squeaky clean to millions of Americans — especially those who had never...

Senior citizens sang their hearts out at the third annual Senior American Idol event last week by Orland Township.
While "American Idol" — the iconic reality TV show on which the senior event is based — will be starting its final season later...